The Record: Spotify disables accounts after open-source group scrapes 86 million songs from platform . “The spokesperson added that Anna’s Archive did not contact them before publishing the files. They also said it did not consider the incident a ‘hack’ of Spotify. The people behind the leaked database systematically violated Spotify’s terms by stream-ripping some of the music from the […]

#Spotify #music #metadata #DataRescue

'It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.'

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Anna’s Archive: Backing up Spotify. “Anna’s Archive normally focuses on text (e.g. books and papers). We explained in ‘The critical window of shadow libraries’ that we do this because text has the highest information density. But our mission (preserving humanity’s knowledge and culture) doesn’t distinguish among media types. Sometimes an opportunity comes along outside of text. This is […]

Flickr Blog: Building Flickr Archives with Data Lifeboat. “With Data Lifeboat, you can create an archive to document a specific time and place, share memories of an event, or curate a collection of perspectives from around the globe. Simply put, conscious archiving with Data Lifeboat can allow you to create and share your own slice of history with future viewers from this vast collection. Here […]

St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion for local history…. The database currently has about 2,000 articles from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/st-louis-magazine-moonlighting-librarians-save-the-rfts-online-archive-from-its-post-porn-purge/

Slaw: The Data Rescue Project: Preserving Government Data Is a Tech & Community Issue. “Precursors to the Data Rescue Project such as the End of Term Web Archive, which captures federal government data after presidential administration transitions, the 2017 Data Refuge Project, and the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), laid the groundwork for 2025 preservation efforts, but […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/the-data-rescue-project-preserving-government-data-is-a-tech-community-issue-slaw/

Making 10M government PDF documents searchable https://flowingdata.com/2025/11/26/making-10m-government-pdf-documents-searchable/

"The code for GovScape is open source and available on GitHub."

#OpenData #OpenGov #OCR #DataRescue #GovDocs

Die @dfg_public startet ein Projekt zur Sicherung im Ausland gefährdeter Forschungsdaten.

https://www.dfg.de/de/foerderung/foerdermoeglichkeiten/programme/infrastruktur/lis/lis-foerderinitiative-datensicherung #Datenpaten
#DataRescue, #SaveTheData, #OpenData, #DataAtRisk,  #ScienceNotSilence